Re: [CF-metadata] How to represent "6-hourly diurnal monthly means" in CF ?

2012-02-24 Thread John Caron
Thanks, Jonathan. On 2/21/2012 11:18 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote: Dear John However, im not sure what this sentence in 7.4 means: "When considering intervals within days, if the earlier time of day is equal to the later time of day, then the method is applied to a full 24 hour day." It doesn't

Re: [CF-metadata] How to represent "6-hourly diurnal monthly means" in CF ?

2012-02-24 Thread John Caron
On 2/21/2012 7:48 AM, Jim Biard wrote: John, Is this actually climatology data? If it were climatology data, it would usually be the average for a given hour, day, or whatever, where the average is taken over a decade or so. I think you may just need to apply regular bounds. You might be

[CF-metadata] How to represent "6-hourly diurnal monthly means" in CF ?

2012-02-21 Thread Jonathan Gregory
Dear John > However, im not sure what this sentence in 7.4 means: "When > considering intervals within days, if the earlier time of day is > equal to the later time of day, then the method is applied to a full > 24 hour day." It doesn't matter in the instantaneous case, but it does matter for sta

Re: [CF-metadata] How to represent "6-hourly diurnal monthly means" in CF ?

2012-02-21 Thread Jim Biard
John, Is this actually climatology data? If it were climatology data, it would usually be the average for a given hour, day, or whatever, where the average is taken over a decade or so. I think you may just need to apply regular bounds. Grace and peace, Jim On 2/20/2012 12:27 PM, John C

[CF-metadata] How to represent "6-hourly diurnal monthly means" in CF ?

2012-02-20 Thread John Caron
Im working with NOAA's CFSR dataset, reading it into the CDM, which essentially means converting GRIB into CF/netCDF. ref: http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data.php#cfs-reanal-data http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds093.2/ from NCAR's DSS page: "CFSR monthly atmospheric, oceanic and land surface outpu